Sean Markey is originally from Charleston, SC. He is currently pursuing a Bachelors of Art in Elementary Education at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. He has severe arachnophobia; please do not read this story to him. His fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine and is forthcoming in Sybil's Garage. For more about him and his work, see his website. Contact him on Twitter @seanmarkey.

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